The Robert Lane Creative Careers Podcast Creators & Guests

Ella Watts is a podcast producer at BBC Studios.

Pippa Evans is a comedian known for her work in character and improvisational comedy.

Tom Mayhew is a critically acclaimed comedian, whose material about being working-class – mixing the personal and the political, with the punchline-rate of a one-liner comic – sets him apart from any other act on the circuit. His 2019 Edinburgh show I, Tom Mayhew, about being someone in their 20s living on benefits in austerity Britain, received 4 and 5 star reviews across the board, and transferred to a sell-out Soho Theatre run. He adapted this show for his own radio series - Tom Mayhew is Benefit Scum - which aired on BBC Radio 4 in March 2021. It was also critically acclaimed, somehow receiving 4 stars in The Daily Mail! The show returned for a 2nd series in 2022.

Dr. Simon Barber is a Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham City University, one half of Sodajerker, and co-host of Sodajerker On Songwriting.

Giles Paley-Phillips is an author, one half of @blankpod and #ALittleBitOfPositive Plays guitar in @burnthousemusic Ambassador for @actionaidUK Rep'd by @lindsaylit #BeKind #CPFC